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Here are some excerpts from the book ‘The Science of Mind Management’ by Swami Mukundananda:
Our mind is the single-most important factor that determines the quality of our life. Successfully controlled, it becomes our best alloy, but if allowed to run wild, it steals our inner peace and undermines all our productive endeavours.
We experience both happiness and distress because of the state of our mind.
What are thoughts? They are subtle bundles of energy created in the factory of the mind.
Like diligent horticulturists, we must carefully weed out all kinds of negative thoughts that sprout, such as anger, greed, hatred, envy, illusion, fear, and anxiety, from the orchard of our mind.
The mind is the cause of bondage, and the mind is the cause of liberation.
Agitation by physical objects is possible only as long as desires for them are present in the mind. If these desires are vanquished from within, then external objects no longer hold sway over us.
The difference between our needs and our wants is created by greed.
Imagine how blissful life would be with the wealth of inner contentment that would come if we could free ourselves from greed.
To want, log, or hope for something is kamana (desire).
The cause for anger is the obstruction of desire.
The uncommonly known secret of this world is that desire can never be eliminated by satiating it.
If you satisfy desire, it results in greed.
That person who eradicates wants and becomes situated in a state of contentment becomes like God.
Where does desire originate from? The answer is that when our mind is attached to something, we experience desire for it. The cause of desire is attachment. The mind is a frequent visitor to the things and people it is most devoted to.
It is our attachment to an object, not its intrinsic properties, which create desire for it.
If we harbour attachment, it will lead to desire; from desire will arise anger and greed.
What is the cause of attachment? When our mind repeatedly revises the thought, ‘there is happiness in this object or person’, our mind develops attachment to that object or person.
By repeated contemplation of happiness in the objects of the senses, one develops attachment to them. Attachment creates desire, and from desire arises anger.
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